It has been established that one of the directions of the airfield surface management system agreed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is the use of diagnostic complexes working according to the methodology known in world practice as HWD (Heavy Weight Deflectometer).The main advantages of the HWD method in the cycle of technical operation of airfield structures were revealed: assessment of the actual condition of the airfield and its individual elements in terms of strength; the possibility of drawing up the national register of the ZPS according to the allowable load tension and residual resource; introduction of the practice of resource management for the repair and maintenance of the airfield based on data on the actual residual resource of structures and real models of their degradation; rational calculation and feasibility study of technological solutions for the restoration and strengthening of structures; the possibility of performing diagnostic operations on the operating runway, which is intensively operated; application of the best European and world experience in the maintenance and development of the network of local and international airports.